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Not Far, Now

Hamid Ismail   Jun 4, 2000   interacts: 18

My shy eyes drink you in

Rain! Oh Beautiful Rain!

Clytan Fernando   Oct 24, 2006   interacts: 5

Now that I bedridden lay!
'Come n play' is what you say

Refusing The Sitara-I-Imtiaz

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Apr 23, 2001   interacts: 263

our national awards have come to be associated with political maneuverings and manipulations

You: The Woman of Today

Priyanka Jha   Aug 30, 2005   interacts: 25

Who has a vision of her own,
Which is for the whole world to see!

Falling In

Kyla Pasha   Aug 21, 2005   interacts: 18

Did you bring a lamb? An apron?
A scythe? Something to cut out
life with, something to smooth
the corners of your ditheistic crime?


The Agony of Remembrance

Ali Hashmi   Jun 13, 2007   interacts: 7

It may sound like a cliché but being thankful for what you have right now is the only antidote to the longing for the good

On Countries of Dwelling

Aisha Sarwari   Sep 10, 2003   interacts: 44

America arrived, as they would say in Urdu. This country is the best thing that ever happened to me without a doubt. It’s here I

Mind over Matter

Abdur Rehman Mustafa   Dec 21, 2005   interacts: 9

Why is it that no Pakistani undergrad would have ever heard of a symposium? Why are Indians so different? And the vision returns:The weak but

Women’s Day 2007

Zainub Razvi   Mar 8, 2007   interacts: 7

The modern woman’s struggle isn’t simply or solely about securing absolute equality... This struggle, and its an on-going one, is one of identifying our changing

New Yaark New Yaark

City Girl   Nov 19, 2000   interacts: 18

2 a.m.: Rekha, cigarette in one hand, a drink in the other is on the dance floor

A Passion for Reading

Zainab Mahmood   Oct 9, 2004   interacts: 23

With the number of galleries that have emerged and a throng of art lovers lining the halls, we can rest assured the same would happen

Lahore Diaries XV

Rehan Ansari   Aug 26, 2000   interacts: 21

Sex Karo Gay?

No Ground Beneath Their Feet

Farzana Versey   Apr 26, 2006   interacts: 80

They have nowhere to go. Only a mother to call their own. But even their mothers have too many men to cater too. ‘Fathers’ who

Memories of Kashmere

Moe Chaudry   Feb 20, 1998   interacts: 7

In quiet slumber I went once more to Gilgit, That hearthly mud cabin where I was born...

Letter from a Soldier

Bina Shah   Apr 14, 1999   interacts: 14

What would that soldier, captured by the Serbs, say?

The Issue of Euthanasia

omayer hashmi   Jul 26, 2003   interacts: 5

There are many topics in the world that are talked about regularly and bring very much public controversy with them. One of these topics is

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